Where does Felters of South Carolina, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Felters of South Carolina, LLC ranks #31,622 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Felters of South Carolina, LLC hold?

Felters of South Carolina, LLC holds 8 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2023, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Felters of South Carolina, LLC's Innovation Score?

Felters of South Carolina, LLC has an Innovation Score of 34.8 out of 100 (49th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Felters of South Carolina, LLC focus on?

Felters of South Carolina, LLC's top technology area is D06F (Laundering, Drying, Ironing, Pressing OR Folding Textile Articles) with 6 patents, ranking #59 of 220 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

Is Felters of South Carolina, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Felters of South Carolina, LLC's recent grant velocity is +0% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Felters of South Carolina, LLC's patents?

Felters of South Carolina, LLC's patents average 19.8 claims each. This is an aggregate descriptive count from the grant record; it does not establish claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk.

How is the Felters of South Carolina, LLC patent data sourced?

All patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering US granted utility patents from 2015 to 2025.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Felters of South Carolina, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 8 granted patents across 15 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2023. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength. Primary class: D06F (Laundering, Drying, Ironing, Pressing OR Folding Textile Articles).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Felters ranks #31,622 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8 patents across 15 technology areas.

#31,622
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 49th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.8/100): 19.8
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R31622 · US Corporation #31,622 · 8 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 8 grants
MID-PACK #31,622/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Falcon Innovations…
CPC-FOCUS D06F · 15 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Falcon Innovations Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (±0 grants)

Instrument codes from this assignee’s USPTO PatentsView grant sheet: volume band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, lead CPC, Innovation Score, claim depth, assignee type, velocity, and book completeness. Not a USPTO rating of patent strength.

How Felters’s 34.8 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Volume 7.6 pts (22%) Velocity 1.7 pts (5%) Breadth 13.7 pts (39%) Claim depth 11.9 pts (34%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Felters of South… · this assignee

35
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Felters's Innovation Score is 34.8/100 (49th percentile of the PatentsView-derived corpus). The chart places that score against the nearest Innovation Score peers plus corpus poles, not a reprint of the volume ranking.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Felters?

Each dot is one of Felters’s 8 nearest volume peers (same corpus rank neighbourhood as the chart above), placed by total granted patents (horizontal) against average claims per patent (vertical). Felters’s own 19.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Felters vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Felters's grants concentrate

Felters of South Carolina, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 75% of grants classified under D06F (Laundering, Drying, Ironing, Pressing OR Folding Textile Articles). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Felters sits between Falcon Innovations Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. and FieldCast, LLC.

Felters's three-year grant acceleration

Felters of South Carolina, LLC shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Falcon Innovation…

8
Farad Power

8
Faraday Defense

8
Fellowship of Ort…

8
Ferret Systems

8
Fiber Sense

8
Fibercore IP B V

8
Fieldcast

8
Felters of South… ◀

8

What this shows Felters holds 8 patents at rank #31,660, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Felters

By rank, the assignees closest to #31,660 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in D06F (Laundering)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Felters's primary technology class.

Felters's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)

35 49th percentile higher than 49% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Felters of South Carolina, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	12.5%
2018	2	25.0%
2019	1	12.5%
2020	2	25.0%
2021	1	12.5%
2023	1	12.5%

Which technologies does Felters of South Carolina, LLC patent most?

D06F - Laundering, Drying, Ironing, Pressing OR Folding Textile Articles 6

F26B - Drying Solid Materials OR Objects BY Removing Liquid Therefrom 5

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 1

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 1

B02B - Preparing Grain FOR MILLING; Refining Granular Fruit TO Commercial Products BY Working THE Surface 1

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 1

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 1

Top 15 of 15 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Felters of South Carolina, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Felters of South Carolina, LLC's lead technology class is D06F (Laundering, Drying, Ironing, Pressing OR Folding Textile Articles), 75% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore D06F
Ranked #31,622 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Felters of South Carolina, LLC against Falcon Innovations Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.8/100 blends volume, velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth. How it's calculated

Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.

Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView - official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the USPTO PatentsView database. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sources used on this page

USPTO PatentsView - the disambiguated bulk patent-grant, assignee, and CPC data this page's figures are derived from. patentsview.org
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
USPTO Patent Public Search - the official interface to verify the status of any individual patent. ppubs.uspto.gov

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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